wiseloki
July 17th, 2007, 09:41 AM
Hi,
Dell C840 2 MHz, 1 GB RAM, Running XP Pro SP2.
Not a big issue, just irritating. I tried to rip a CD into MP3 format using Windows Media Player 10 at 128 kb/s for the smallest file (this was the first time ever I tried to rip a CD) and got an C00D0FAA error message (which translates as WMP cannot find an MP3 encoder).
I searched the Windows Knowledgebase and found a couple of fixes, one that involved deleting the LowRateSample key value in the registry for MediaPlayer, which I tried but it didn't work.
I tried changing the registry PreferredCodecPath value from l3codecp.acm to l3codeca.acm and back again (I read that this fixed a different problem for someone with a Dell and I found I had both in my System32 folder, so what the heck) but no effect.
I tried the other Knowledgebase solution of raising the bit rate from 128 kb/s to 192 kb/s, and this worked OK.
Anyone any idea how I can get WPM10 to rip to MP3 at 128 kb/s? Clearly, there is an MP3 encoder present, otherwise I couldn't rip at 192 kb/s.
Dell C840 2 MHz, 1 GB RAM, Running XP Pro SP2.
Not a big issue, just irritating. I tried to rip a CD into MP3 format using Windows Media Player 10 at 128 kb/s for the smallest file (this was the first time ever I tried to rip a CD) and got an C00D0FAA error message (which translates as WMP cannot find an MP3 encoder).
I searched the Windows Knowledgebase and found a couple of fixes, one that involved deleting the LowRateSample key value in the registry for MediaPlayer, which I tried but it didn't work.
I tried changing the registry PreferredCodecPath value from l3codecp.acm to l3codeca.acm and back again (I read that this fixed a different problem for someone with a Dell and I found I had both in my System32 folder, so what the heck) but no effect.
I tried the other Knowledgebase solution of raising the bit rate from 128 kb/s to 192 kb/s, and this worked OK.
Anyone any idea how I can get WPM10 to rip to MP3 at 128 kb/s? Clearly, there is an MP3 encoder present, otherwise I couldn't rip at 192 kb/s.